GOOGLE EARTH!, hockey, rock music, motorcycles, vikings, travelling (exploring, to be more precise), particle beams, Ice Cream, Insular art, the Colossus of Rhodes, a good recliner, history, big clunky boots, big clunky belts, ancient technology, secret societies, computer games, Egyptian mythology and art, geography, really... ancient cultures of any kind, juices of many varieties, The Dropa Stones, celtic mythology and art, the Antikythera Mechanism, outer space and astronomy, cryptozoology, testing the physical limits of strangeness....
Current Course of Classes:
Physics 2187 4 Experimental Physics for Non-Ethical Applications..
Culinary Arts 8798 2 Juice to Your Health..
Accounting 5499 2 Money Siphoning 101..
Geography 2358 3 Who Hates Who This Week..
Physical Ed 5878 4 Synchronized Swimming and it's everyday Applications..
Engineering 985 2 Building a Better Treehouse..
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Music
I love old rock & roll stuff. Beauty in simplicity. I also like complex European Black and Folk Metal. The kind of stuff that really paints a story, not just a picture.
Movies
Mostly just Star Wars really......but also gruesome bloody horror. Also Lord of the Rings which i only recently really got in to. I got teary-eyed and stuffy after seeing Return of the King for the first time. That's the first time i can say that a movie has done that to me. Does that make me a nerd? a wuss? both? i agree.
Some of my favorite actors are Gary Oldman, DeNiro, Willem Dafoe, Jean Reno, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Harrison Ford, Viggo Mortenson, Peter O'Toole etc...
I really don't care for artsy type films, because once you've seen it, you've seen it. There isn't much replay value in them. I also don't want to have to dig too deep to find the point of a movie. That's not to say I don't want movies that have a message or get you thinking, I just don't want to be forced to. The good movies are the ones that on the surface are entertaining and captivating but also ones you can watch over and over again and also can find new things and meanings every time just watching it. Really, though, I think it just boils down to me disliking movie snobs, which has soured certain movies for me.
Do you wanna hear my cheesy Lord of the Rings joke? No? Well, I'm gonna tell ya anyways.
What do you call Edoras' trendiest clothing store?
Give up?
The Gap of Rohan! hahahahaha.......I'll shut up now.
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Television
It's mostly FOX, Adult Swin on CN, Discovery, The Weather Channel, OLN and CSN Chicago fer ma hockey fixes, The History Channel, The Military Channel, TNT fer ma X-Files fix (even though i have a large quantity of DVD's), ESPN News (because I don't get TSN), CBS and NBC fer ma late-night talk fixes (Letterman and Conan), any of those wife swap shows........those are just mean...
Books
Anything about travel or history, don't read much fiction. I also enjoy technical manuals and atlases (not sure if that's the correct plural of atlas, if you know, let me know). Mostly though it's the books that school has forced upon me (damned hippies!). I read magazines/newspapers more than anything. I do also like graphic novels. My favorite book of all time is Second Chance: A Jack Colquitt Adventure by Raul Bloodworth
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Heroes
Luke Skywalker, Nikola Tesla, Oliver Reed, Syd Barrett, Pat LaFontaine, Assisted-Living Dracula, Moth-Monster Man...........so essentially only mythical archetypes. Also, all the men and women at NASA, especially those astronauts involved in the Apollo space program, who have braved the cold, harsh, vastness of space to take mankind to new places and in some cases have given their lives for it. That is true bravery and they are truly people to be looked up to. ..
Depaul University
Chicago, ILLINOIS
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: education with a minor in rocking out
Clubs: no clubs.......more like lead pipes, they're heavier and do more damage. Organizations, what do you mean..........there is no mob.
2005 to 2006
Fountain Hills High School
Fountain Hills, AZ
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Major: losing my mind and avoiding the barrage of flying french fries
Minor: quietism
Clubs: no clubs, lead pipes work better
Greek:
Rho Rho Rho
2000 to 2001
Maine West High School
Des Plaines, IL
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: slacking
Minor: hooliganism
Clubs: WMTH - Radio aaaaand TV, chess club that one day, and i helped with stage crew a few times
Greek:
Pi Chi Pi
1997 to 2000
Padraig's Companies
US Government Washington DC, District of Columbia US craft retrieval specialist Extra-terrestrial intelligence
(classified)
Patrick's Super Lemonade Stands inc. Des Plaines, Illinois US Lemonade Stand Attendant Sales
7-14-92 through 7-15-92
Jeffrey's Fast Food Milwaukee, Wisconsin US Human Meat Burger Flipper Food Prep
4-3-87 through 5-18-88
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About me: Oh, what's to tell? I was at the orphanage till I was 18, then I got my job at the souvenir stand. Oh, and once I sawr a blimp.
In the end we will all be proven false in the idea that we are anything more than nothing.
Those who do not possess humbleness, fail to understand the higher concept of humilty, and deride deference. - Thomas Gabriel Fischer
Who I'd like to meet: Pat LaFontaine: Favorite Hockey Player of all time....as much for what he's done off the ice as he's done on it......and he did a helluva lot on it.
..I'm also always on the lookout for a partner in crime.
Reality: Despite what Popeye led a lot of young people to believe, spinach is not particularly rich in iron. In reality, it has about the same iron content as any other green vegetable, according to Dr. Philip Kern of UAMS’ Division of Endocrinology. “Spinach also contains oxalic acid, which prevents more than 90 percent of the iron from being absorbed by the body,” says Dr. Kern. However, spinach is rich source of vitamin A, vitamin E and several vital antioxidants, with more than a half-day’s supply of beta carotene found in just a half cup of the vegetable, adds Dr. Kern. (The idea that spinach contained exceptional levels of iron originated in 1870 with Dr. E. von Wolf whose figures remained unchallenged until 1937, when it was discovered that the content was 1/10th the claim. The oversight resulted from a misplaced decimal point. )
Hey brother in law! I'm coming back at the end May. We WILL hang out! No more other people making plans for me for my vacations....It's going to be what I want to do.
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